The Teaching Profession

Strategies for strengthening teachers and their working conditions

Report

Teaching Innovation: New School Staffing Strategies Inspired by the Pandemic

Authored byLynn Olson

School staffing strategies that developed during the pandemic, the conditions that enabled them, and how educators overcame barriers to the innovations

Report

A Policymaker’s Playbook for Transforming Teaching

Authored byThomas Toch

The District of Columbia Public Schools’ transformation of teaching into a performance-based profession

From the Field

Q&A: Goldhaber on the Teaching Gap’s Troubling Consequences

Why low-income students are often stuck with the least experienced teachers

Report

Educators and ESSER: How Pandemic Spending Is Reshaping the Teaching Profession

Authored byPhyllis W. Jordan, Bella DiMarco

A comprehensive picture of state and local ESSER spending on the educator workforce

Report

Master’s of None: The Fallacy of Advanced Ed Degrees

Authored byGrace Gedye

The questionable practice of rewarding teachers for earning advanced degrees

From the Field

Q&A: Kraft on Why Reforming Teacher Evaluation Has—and Hasn’t—Succeeded

Authored byThomas Toch

The push to improve teacher evaluation and resistance it has encountered

Report

Scaling Reform: Tennessee’s Statewide Teacher Transformation

Authored byLynn Olson

Tennessee’s redesign of its teaching profession

Arming Teachers

54%

Teachers who believe teachers carrying firearms would make schools less safe
20%

Teachers who believe teacher-carry would make schools safer

Source: RAND

Teacher Salaries & Rent Prices

15

Cities where a one-bedroom rental is unaffordable for a new teacher with a bachelor's degree
9

Cities where a one-bedroom rental is unaffordable for a new teacher with a master's degree

Source: NCTQ

Teacher Pension Costs

$21.8 billion

Teacher pension costs in 2001
$63.7 billion

Teacher pension costs in 2021, adjusted for inflation

Source: Equable Institute

Teacher Starting Salaries 20-21

$32,495

Average starting salary for teachers in Montana
$56,313

Average starting salary for teachers in DC

Source: National Education Association

Principal Stress During the Pandemic

83%

Principals who reported frequent job-related stress last school year (2020-21)
59%

Principals who cited supporting teachers’ mental health as a main source of stress

Source: Learn Together Surveys

Teacher Hours

54

Median hours worked per week by the typical teacher
25

Median hours spent teaching students

Source: The Merrimack College and EdWeek Research Center

From the Field

The Obstacles to a More Diverse Teacher Workforce

Authored byJill Barshay

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From the Field

New Insights into Motivating Students

Authored byJill Barshay

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From the Field

Research Notes: Teacher Incentives Lead to Better Student Outcomes

Authored byBenito Aranda-Comer

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Research Notes: How Incentive Pay Can Attract and Retain Teachers

Authored byNathalie Kirsch

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Explainer

Legislative Tracker: 2023 Teacher-Pay Bills in the States

Authored byBenito Aranda-Comer

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From the Field

Research Notes: CTE Teachers’ Training and Student Outcomes

Authored byNathalie Kirsch

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WEBINAR: Teachers Like Us: Strategies for Increasing Educator Diversity

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Research Notes: How Automating Student Feedback Can Help Teachers Take Notice

Authored byBenito Aranda-Comer

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From the Field

Q&A: Backes on New Ways of Measuring Teachers’ Impact on Student Success

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Explainer

Governors’ Education Priorities in their 2023 State-of-the-State Addresses

Authored byBella DiMarco, Nathalie Kirsch

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From the Field

Research Notes: Evaluating the Impact of Teach for America: Two New Studies

Authored byPhyllis W. Jordan, Benito Aranda-Comer

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From the Field

Research Notes: The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession

Authored byNathalie Kirsch

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The Churn

The latest leadership changes in the education sector

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